"I found C.M. Mayos
book to be very engaging and well-written. This is not your typical
history, or even esoteric history book. Mayo is a profoundly
creative and insightful artist who is able to bring her own perspective
into the frame while enhancing our understanding of her subjects.
This is a masterful introduction to a topic that hasnt
been explored in this accessible way before, and may never be
again. If you enjoy esotericism, history, politics, and the way
that they sometimes intersect, I highly recommend you read C.M.
Mayos Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution."
Greg Kaminsky, host of Occult of Personality

The
Mexican Labyrinth
"How the Talking Dead Helped Forge Modern Mexico"
Guadalajara-based journalist Stephen Woodman interviews C.M.
Mayo."It is an inconvenient
fact for Mexican historians that the Father of the Revolution
Francisco I. Madero, kept in regular contact with spirits of
the dead. Yet Madero, who served as president from 1911 until
his assassination less than two years later, was a deeply committed
spiritist and believed he spoke to departed relatives and possibly
even former Mexican leaders. Through his practice of mechanical
writing, Madero put pen to paper and let invisible beings guide
his hand, shakily transcribing words of wisdom from beyond the
grave. With a Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution,
U.S. novelist and translator C.M. Mayo has written one of the
only books to focus on this key aspect of his life. READ
MORE

"University
of Chicago Alumna Explores Secret Book by Leader of the Mexican
Revolution"By Greg Borzo, Division of the Social Sciences University
of Chicago, on-line newsletter, April 2014Touring archives at Mexicos Ministry of Finance
in 2008, Catherine Mansell, who goes by her pen name, C.M.
Mayo, came across a little book called Manual espírita
by Bhima.aaaWhos
Bhima? she asked. None other than Francisco Madero, the
Mexican statesman who kicked off the Mexican Revolution and served
as president of Mexico from 1911 to 1913, before he was assassinated....At that moment, Mayo, an accomplished
novelist, memoirist, poet and translator, knew instantly
and absolutely that she would translate this secret, never-before-translated
work....READ
MORE

February 13,
2013Spotlight
on C.M. Mayo over at Lisa Carter's Intralingo Blog, on getting
started in literary translation, translating Mexican writers
Agustín Cadena and Mónica Lavín, and tackling
the translation of Francisco I. Madero's secret book of 1911.
February 13, 2013.

Write
On! Online Debra Eckerling
interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire and the writing process. July 3, 2009.

largehearted boy
A guest-blog post with a playlist for The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire.

Savvy Verse & WitInterview by leading book blogger Serena
Agusto-Cox about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.

Whereabouts
Press BlogJohn
Bennett interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire and some of the stories
(by Araceli Ardón, Fernando del Paso,
Mónica Lavín) in Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion.

The
Poet and the Poem
Grace Cavalieri inteviews C.M. Mayo and Francisco Aragon. Recorded
Fall 2008 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Emerging
Writers Network
Reading the World: E-Panel of Literary Translators: C.M. Mayo
and others on the art of literary translators.Hill
Rag An interview
with C.M. Mayo about her reading of "The Building of Quality"
for the inaugural A Space Inside Reading Series at Riverby Books
on Capitol Hill.

ATA
Chronicle Lily
Liu's Interview with the editor of TAMEME. "Literary translation
is an art and it matters very much how well it is done..."Film Threat
"Talking
Pictures: Kahlo's Ghost" -- C.M. Mayo on Salma Hayek's "Frida".

February 13,
2013Spotlight
on C.M. Mayo over at Lisa Carter's Intralingo Blog, on getting
started in literary translation, translating Mexican writers
Agustín Cadena and Mónica Lavín, and tackling
the translation of Francisco I. Madero's secret book of 1911.
February 13, 2013.

Write
On! Online Debra Eckerling
interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire and the writing process. July 3, 2009.

largehearted
boy
A guest-blog post with a playlist for The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire.

Savvy Verse & WitInterview by leading book blogger Serena
Agusto-Cox about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.

Whereabouts
Press BlogJohn
Bennett interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire and some of the stories
(by Araceli Ardón, Fernando del Paso,
Mónica Lavín) in Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion.

The
Poet and the Poem
Grace Cavalieri inteviews C.M. Mayo and Francisco Aragon. Recorded
Fall 2008 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Emerging
Writers Network
Reading the World: E-Panel of Literary Translators: C.M. Mayo
and others on the art of literary translators.Hill
Rag An interview
with C.M. Mayo about her reading of "The Building of Quality"
for the inaugural A Space Inside Reading Series at Riverby Books
on Capitol Hill.

ATA
Chronicle Lily
Liu's Interview with the editor of TAMEME. "Literary translation
is an art and it matters very much how well it is done..."Film Threat
"Talking
Pictures: Kahlo's Ghost" -- C.M. Mayo on Salma Hayek's "Frida".

CLMP
Newswire "Literary
NAFTA Crosses Borders" C.M. Mayo on the founding of Tameme,
the bilingual (Spanish/English) journal of new writing from Canada,
the US and Mexico

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I love to read so from the time I was small I read a lot. Second
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